Designing for Multiple Screens

Designing for Multiple Screens

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Digital interaction is a ubiquitous form of communication in today’s world. Designing for Screens provides students with the framework to understand, discuss and create effective interactive designs on digital displays. Through a series of collab- orative studio sessions, open discussions, critiques, site visits and guest lectures, students will be immersed in the current culture of screen design. From mobile apps and tablets to desktops and immerse displays, this course will cover the process of designing products for screens from concept to wire frame to interface design and user testing.

CLASS EXPERIENCE

This is a full semester studio class that will immerse students within the current culture of screen design through a series of lectures, collaborative studio sessions, open discussions, critiques, site visits and guest lectures. Each class will begin with a 5 minute stand up to review the previous week’s progress and plan the upcoming week. Each class will end with a 5 minute retrospective of the class.

Students will develop skills through a series of exercises, workshops and assignments and will be asked to create, present and defend their solutions as well as critique their peers solutions. In addition, students will also be responsible for creating two project dossiers.

COURSE DELIVERABLES

Students in this course will come away with a set of tools to:

Articulate user-centered design best-practices

Communicate, and articulate themselves and their product within the realm of digital design.

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INSTAGRAM FEED

FEATURED PROJECTS

Julia Lindpaintner’s thesis work was inspired by her own experience of serving on a grand jury in Manhattan during the summer of 2016. It profoundly changed her understanding of the judicial system, and in particular, the way she saw her role in it. “My mental model shifted,” Julia states. She further explains, “Instead of seeing the judicial system as an autonomous force over which I had no influence, I felt viscerally the way in which we, as citizens, are collectively responsible for the system and the outcomes it produces.”

As part of SVA Products of Design’s partnership with Veterans Affairs (and held through the Design Research and Integration class taught by IDEO’s Lawrence Abrahamson) , designers Jiani Lin, Alexia Cohen, Teng Yu, William Crum, and Antriksh Nangia used design to examine gender and the military—creating two design proposals aimed at changing the way people “see” women veterans.

NEWS & PRESS

Join us at this year's Open House and Information Session, taking place on Wednesday, November 14th, 2017—from 6-8:30pm! Attendees will be able to meet faculty, alumni, and current students, see projects, learn about the program, tour the studio, classroom spaces, and Visible Futures Lab, and ask questions about life at Products of Design. Delicious refreshments will be shared throughout the session.

We are extraordinarily proud that for the entire month of April, the two New York-based MoMA Design Stores are dedicating their windows and in-store displays to the collaboration with MFA Products of Design department! For the launch of 6 new products, an Opening Reception was held in midtown Manhattan last Thursday night. Check out photos below of the packed house, guests, and featured products designed by Products of Design students!